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Pre-Owned 2015 ChevroletTrax LTZ SUV
- Exterior Color
- Black Granite Metallic
- Interior Color
- Jet Black/Light Titanium
- Odometer
- 105,073 miles
- Body/Seating
- SUV/5 seats
- Fuel Economy
- 26/34 MPG City/Hwy
- Transmission
- 6-Speed Automatic
- Drivetrain
- Engine
- ECOTEC 1.4L I4 SMPI DOHC Turbocharged VVT
- Stock Number
Highlighted Features
- Emergency communication system
- Premium audio system
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Parking sensors
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Auto-dimming rearview mirror
- Split folding rear seat
- Heated front seats
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Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- 1-touch up
- Air conditioning
- Auto-dimming rearview mirror
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Emergency communication system: OnStar Directions & Connections
- Front beverage holders
- Illuminated entry
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power windows
- Rear beverage holders
- Rear door bins
- Remote engine start: keyfob
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Alloy wheels
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 215/55HR18.0
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Power steering
- Rear tires: 215/55HR18.0
- Speed-sensing steering
- Wheel size: 18"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 1
- AM/FM radio: SiriusXM
- Premium audio system: Chevrolet MyLink
- Primary LCD size: 7.0"
- Radio data system
- Smart device integration: OnStar RemoteLink
- Speaker type: Bose
- Speakers: 7
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Turn-by-turn navigation directions: OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Driver seat mounted armrest
- Front seats: bucket
- Heated front seats
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Power 2-way driver lumbar support
- Power driver seat
- Rear seat center armrest
- Rear seats: split-bench
- Rear seats Folding position: flip forward cushion/seatback
- Split folding rear seat
- Compressor: intercooled turbo
- Cylinder configuration: I-4
- Drive type: front-wheel
- Engine liters: 1.4
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 26mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 29mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 34mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 14.0gal.
- Horsepower: 138hp @ 4,900RPM
- Manual-shift auto
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Sequential multi-point fuel injection
- Torque: 148 lb.-ft. @ 1,850RPM
- Transmission: 6 speed automatic
- Variable valve control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Heated door mirrors
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: liftgate
- Spoiler
- Compression ratio: 9.50 to 1
- Curb weight: 1,445kg (3,186lbs)
- Engine bore x stroke: 72.5mm x 82.6mm (2.85" x 3.25")
- Engine displacement: 1.4 L
- Engine horsepower: 138hp @ 4,900RPM
- Engine torque: 148 lb.-ft. @ 1,850RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,775mm (69.9")
- Exterior height: 1,656mm (65.2")
- Exterior length: 4,247mm (167.2")
- Front headroom: 1,006mm (39.6")
- Front hiproom: 1,313mm (51.7")
- Front legroom: 1,036mm (40.8")
- Front shoulder room: 1,374mm (54.1")
- GVWR: 1,990kg (4,387lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 530 L (19 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 1,371 L (48 cu.ft.)
- Rear headroom: 986mm (38.8")
- Rear hiproom: 1,288mm (50.7")
- Rear legroom: 907mm (35.7")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,341mm (52.8")
- Turning radius: 5.6m (18.3')
- Wheelbase: 2,555mm (100.6")
- Compass
- Delay-off headlights
- Display: digital/analog
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front fog lights
- Front reading lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Parking sensors: rear
- Rear window defroster
- Rear window wiper
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- ABS brakes
- Brake assist
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Electronic stability
- Ignition disable
- Knee airbag
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Perimeter/approach lights
- Rear side impact airbag
- Security system
- Tracker system
- Traction control
Dealer Notes
* 2015 IIHS Top Safety Pick * 2015 KBB.com 10 Tech-Savviest Cars Under $20,000 * 2015 KBB.com 10 Best Used Subcompact SUVs Under $15,000
* Maybe you're on a budget or just starting a family â€" the Chevrolet Trax is small in stature, but it can still haul its fair share of passengers and cargo. Source: KBB.com
* Easy to maneuver in the city; respectable passenger space for its size; plenty of storage slots; lots of standard equipment for the money. Source: Edmunds
* The all-new 2015 Trax gives you the best of both worlds: the versatility of an SUV and the maneuverability to park on city streets. With an elevated view of the road, you can take command of your city's streets. And with the signature Chevrolet dual-port grille, swept-back headlights and available chrome accents, the Trax small SUV is sure to turn heads wherever you go. The interior can be easily reconfigured to maximize versatility, thanks to the 60/40 flip-and-fold rear seat and fold-flat front passenger seat. The fun begins at every stoplight, thanks to the confident acceleration of the 1.4L turbocharged ECOTEC engine that's standard in every Trax. The horsepower is 138, but it's the 148 lb.-ft of at-the-ready torque that makes Trax so responsive to every touch Trax gives you two ways of engaging more directly in your driving, with a standard six-speed manual transmission on LS models, and a six-speed automatic transmission on LT and LTZ models. Turbocharging doesn't only increase power generation, it also enhances fuel efficiency delivering a 5.7L/100 km hwy fuel consumption rating that is unsurpassed. The available Chevrolet MyLink Radio connects your compatible smartphone to the MyLink 178mm color touch-screen display and enables you to use screen, voice commands, or the steering wheel-mounted controls. The system also allows you to access apps like Stitcher SmartRadio and TuneIn that can stream over 70,000 radio stations from around the world and best enjoyed with the available seven-speaker Bose premium sound system that features its own amplifier. Source: The Manufacturer Summary
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At least two gunmen repeatedly shoot teacher for Christian activities.
LOS ANGELES, June 29 (Compass Direct News) – Funeral services will be held tomorrow for a U.S. teacher in Mauritania who was shot dead last week by Islamic extremists for spreading Christianity.
Christopher Leggett, 39, was killed Tuesday morning (June 23) in front of the language and computer school he operated in Nouakchott, the capital city.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, North African unit of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, claimed responsibility for the murder on an Internet site, accusing Leggett of "missionary activities." A North African al-Qaeda spokesman aired a statement on an Arab TV station saying the group killed Leggett because he was allegedly trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Advocacy organization Middle East Concern reported that Leggett "resisted what appeared to be an attempt to kidnap him and was then shot in the head several times by his two assailants."
His family issued a statement today saying they forgave the murderers but asked that they be caught and prosecuted.
"In a spirit of love, we express our forgiveness for those who took away the life of our remarkable son," the family said in the statement, distributed in English, French and Arabic. "Chris had a deep love for Mauritania and its people, a love that we share. Despite this terrible event, we harbor no ill will for the Mauritanian people. On a spiritual level, we forgive those responsible, asking only that justice be applied against those who killed our son."
Mauritania's minister of justice reportedly said that Leggett's death "was a great loss to Mauritania." Leggett, his wife and four children lived for seven years in Mauritania, where he directed an aid agency that provided training in computer skills, sewing and literacy, and he also ran a micro-finance program, according to the Cleveland Daily Banner.
Mauritania's National Foundation for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) called for the killers to be brought to justice.
"This hateful crime, which was committed in broad daylight close to the market in El Ksar, one of the busiest in Nouakchott, once again raises the issue of instability and terrorism, which is often used by the military authorities to justify all sorts of unnatural situations," the FNDD the statement read.
The Associated Press reported that Mauritania's Interior Ministry said it was investigating the murder and that security forces were searching for the killers.
The AP reported that Leggett, who grew up in Cleveland, Tenn., taught at a center specializing in computer science and languages in El Kasr, a lower-class neighborhood in Nouakchott. The Rev. Jim Gibson, co-pastor of First Baptist Church of Cleveland, told the news service that Leggett visited the congregation when he traveled back to the United States but worked independently in Mauritania.
The Cleveland Daily Banner reported that Leggett was a 1987 graduate of Cleveland High School, attended Cleveland State Community College and graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1990 with a degree in Business Administration. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Cleveland for many years and most recently was a member of Michigan Avenue Baptist Church of Cleveland.
His funeral is scheduled for Tuesday 2009 at the First Baptist Church of Cleveland at 2 p.m.
Memorials to the family can be made at http://www.clevelandfbc.com, or sent to Jackie B. Leggett at 1112 Glenmore Drive, Cleveland, TN 37312 or through First Baptist Church of Cleveland, 340 Church Street, Cleveland, TN 37311 and designated to the J. Mack Hall Fund. Messages of condolence may be given at http://www.ralphbuckner.com.
The last known activity of al-Qaeda in Mauritania occurred in December 2007, when gunmen believed to be linked to al-Qaeda's North Africa branch killed four French tourists picnicking near Aleg, east of Nouakchott.
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Stephen Colbert joins US presidents at wax museum
Staff Writer
Columbus Monthly
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Colbert will take his place among the presidents at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington and will be featured in a new media gallery.
Colbert is expected to visit the museum Friday to unveil a new wax figure created to represent him. The museum says Colbert donated his own clothes to dress the figure in a suit, tie, cuff links and lapel pin.
The new figure will be the centerpiece of a new media gallery with a replica of "The Colbert Report" set where guests can sit next to Colbert's figure behind his fake news desk.
Designers from Madame Tussauds went to Colbert's New York studio in June to take more than 250 measurements and photographs of the Comedy Central star to create the wax figure.


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Many of Manila's most popular attractions can be found in the bay area. The Malacañang Palace is the official home of the president of the Philippines and was built in the 18th century. The palace includes public gardens and a museum to explore. Chinatown is a popular place to visit during a trip to Manila, and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. There, you'll find all manner of Chinese foods and goods.
There are also several large museums in Manila. The National Museum of the Philippines contains a diverse range of collections covering archaeology, culture, zoology, the arts and other subjects. To get a better understanding of the nation's history, head to the Museum of Philippine Political History, or discover the country's great artists at the National Art Gallery.
If you want to see nature at its finest, Manila Bay is the best spot to view the sunset and its fascinating kaleidoscope of colour.
Leisure activities
There are a wide range of guided tours to embark on during your trip to Manila, covering the city's history, skyscrapers and other themes.
Head to the Rizal Park (locally known as Luneta), if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Covering 60 hectares of gardens, the park is named after the Philippine national hero Jose Rizal. Within the park complex is the Manila Ocean Park, an 8,000-sqm oceanarium.
On the other hand, if you're looking to dive head first into Filipino culture, then join in the festivities at one of Manila's many annual events, such as the Chinese New Year Welcoming Festival, the Santacruzan Festival or the Manila Summer Sea Sports Festival.
Like Manila itself, Filipino cuisine is very much the sum of its parts. Its dishes have been inspired by a variety of influences from three continents, and contains elements of Spanish, Asian and American cuisine. One day you could be eating paella, then noodles, then American-style burger patties next. But it would be worth your while to try local fares, such as adobo, a kind of braised chicken.
Many restaurants can be found in the commercial district of Makati, as well as in several shopping malls throughout Manila.
During your travel to Manila, you'll undoubtedly come across an array of traditional markets. One of the largest is Divisoria, which is frequented by locals more than tourists, but has plenty to offer anyone wanting to discover the real Manila. Other locations include those at Greenhills Shopping Centre and St. Francis Square.
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Debian Installation Guide
2007-11, see http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
As of November 2005, ATI's drivers are in the non-free area of Debian. Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list contains "contrib non-free" as well as main. You will, however, have to build your own kernel modules.
Warning: do not mix the non-free packages with the packages created by the installer as they will conflict in non-obvious ways. Before switching from one method to another, completely remove all fglrx-related packages. Never do upgrade from one method to another directly!
The buildpackage will fail on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). They're quite broken.
In addition, the generic installer will fail if your / partition has less space available than it wants, even if all of the files would be placed on a different partition (such as /usr).
Update the xorg.conf file (Configuration)
sudo aticonfig --initial
Now restart X, or reboot for the driver changes to take effect.
Confirm that it worked
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)
If it didn't work, you may need to run:
# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri # ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
Thanks to Maciej Matysiak for the clear debug here and solution here.
If it's still not working, try:
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so* # rm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* # cd /usr/X11R6/lib # cp /usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/lib/libGL.so.1.2 . # ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1 # ldconfig
and confirm that 'ldd /usr/bin/fglrxinfo' is pointing to the right one.
People seem to be experiencing a broken libGL.so.1 after installing 8.41 on Debian/etch. If `amdcccle` complains that libGL.so.1 does't exist, DONT DELETE /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 LIKE IT SAYS ABOVE. Make symbolic link to libGL.so.1.2 (which is included in fglrx package - 14 megs in size):
# cd /usr/lib # ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1
This work fine for ATI mobility radeon 1400
(make backup the olds xorg.* files in your folder)
$ cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /home/username/xorg.conf.old $ cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /home/username/Xorg.0.log.old
(add contrib non-free in repositories)
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debconf bzip2
(from www.amd.com download the current version of driver for your ATI)
$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/lenny
$ apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-driver-_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-driver-dev_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get install fglrx-kernel-src_8.40.4-1_i386.deb $ apt-get -f upgrade $ apt-get update
$ module-assistant prepare $ module-assistant update $ module-assistant a-i fglrx
$ aticonfig --initial
(reboot computer)
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON 9700 Generic OpenGL version string: 1.3.5461 (X4.3.0-8.19.10)


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Addresses (STREET VS. MAILING)
A tremendous number of homes in the Poconos have no street address, only the number on the mailbox. And the post office that services those mailboxes is often not in the same municipality.
So a lot of folks get the wrong idea about where they live, based on their mail.
"I live in East Stroudsburg," some will say. Quite a few will say that, because the East Stroudsburg post office is the mail hub for a great many delivery routes that extend into several other municipalities. People who get their mail through an "East Stroudsburg" mailing address may actually live in Smithfield, Middle Smithfield, or Price townships, or even farther away.
Well, a lot of the time, it doesn't. But you pay your taxes based on what municipality you live in, so if you have a tax issue to resolve, you need to know. And you need to know which municipal officials represent you - and spend your tax money. They're also the ones who fix your local roads. And if you need an ambulance or a fire truck or a police officer, telling 911 you live in "East Stroudsburg" could add time to the emergency response as they try to sort it out and figure out where you really live - which could be many long, traffic-congested miles away from where they went based on your call. Where you live depends on what emergency services provider gets the call.
United Parcel Service and other delivery services sometimes refuse to deliver to some people who have only a mailbox number. They want a real street address - 1116 Juniper Avenue, not Box 38987.
So - before too much time goes by - get a map. Pin down where you live. It might be important.
This confusion is gradually coming to an end. Efforts are under way in some municipalities to assign real street addresses, so that the emergency response system can join the 21st Century. It's a slow process, because the previous lack of a system for naming roads, coupled with booming development since 1980, means we have - for instance - six streets named Maple in Tobyhanna Township, three Roads Ends in Tunkhannock, and Cedars, Spruces and Pines without end. Renaming streets so there is only one of each in each municipality is part of the process of straightening out the madness. It's happening. But for now, you're on your own.


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Nikita Boss Weighs In on Series Finale, Amanda's Fate and More
[Warning: The following contains spoilers from Nikita's series finale. Read at your own risk!]
Nikita and her merry band of rogue agents are no more.
After four seasons of sacrifice, betrayals, lost loves and lost causes, Nikita's series finale on Friday -- surprise, surprise! -- had a (relatively) happy ending. Although the gang had lost their analyst Ryan Fletcher (Noah Bean) just last week, each of the remaining team members survived the finale and had a rosy future ahead of them. Plus: They caught Amanda (Melinda Clarke) and locked her up in a top-secret basement prison. "I think we knew there would be a general resolution, that Michael and Nikita (Shane West, Maggie Q) would end up together," series creator Craig Silverstein tells TVGuide.com. "I definitely knew I wanted a happy ending.
Nikita's Noah Bean on Ryan's big showdown with Amanda
"There were some pitches around the room about sacrificial deaths of Nikita, and I didn't think that was right," he continues. "But we did consider scenarios in where Nikita was a lone wolf in the end and was always going to be this elusive figure and could never quite settle down. I could see an ending like that, but with all of the plot that was going on condensed into the six episodes, there was no way to really effectively set that up. It would have felt unsatisfying watching her go off alone."
Here's what else Silverstein had to say about killing Ryan, keeping Amanda alive, wish fulfillment and what's next:
Was it important that Nikita go rogue again to make it come full circle?
Craig Silverstein: Yeah, that came about kind of a bit closer to the end, toying with these ideas of Nikita giving into her dark side and fooling the audience about that in order to fool Amanda basically. The only way to get there, of course, was to have Ryan die.
Poor guy. Let's talk about him. Was it a difficult decision to kill off Ryan? Why did you decide to do so?
Silverstein: Well, he was the only single guy in the office. [Laughs] So no one would miss him. We knew we didn't have to deal with the grief of a girlfriend. They could all mourn him together. But also, we needed a sacrifice, someone close on the team to die in order [for us] to believe that Nikita would go on this dark rampage, but also to understand how heroic it was for her to not give into that and trick Amanda.
But he did get a little cameo at the end...
Silverstein: He got a great cameo at the end, and I think his death was incredibly powerful. I love the way that Nick Copus shot the sequence that led up to Ryan's death itself, which was very raw and real because he's not a trained assassin like the rest of them. It had a different and more desperate feel to it, his whole last fight. That was just terrific.
Surprise! You kept Amanda alive! What was the decision behind this? Was it just because this is the worst torture you could devise for her?
Silverstein: I think so. And also, a violent death for Amanda, I think, would have been satisfying in the moment, and then not so much afterwards. Amanda was never -- even if she was physically capable -- she wasn't a real physical threat that needed to be physically destroyed. It was much more interesting to beat her on her own terms, which was through deception and wit.
Even Owen/Sam (Devon Sawa) got a happy ending: He got to be part of Olex at last! Did that have anything to do with fans clamoring for that pairing?
Silverstein: That was something we had been eyeing as far back as Season 1. We always thought it would be interesting, and I wish we actually had more time to develop that because that story line suffered because of the short order. In particular, that story line would have been better with more episodes.
I was happy because at least Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) gets some happiness. She has the most dead ex-lovers on the series, right? This bunch has a lot of dead exes.
Silverstein: Oh, yeah. She did. Dating her or Nikita was a very dangerous prospect for any guy.
Beyond the open source anarchy, did you have anything else in mind for Birkhoff's (Aaron Stanford) future? Marriage to Sonya (Lyndie Greenwood) perhaps?
Silverstein: Yeah, I think so. In fact, Sonya was going to be in the final episode, but Lyndie had gotten onto Sleepy Hollow. It became a schedule issue. It was not in our plan to not have her in the final.
Speaking of Birkhoff, thank you for the Lionel and Peller exchange. Was Judd Nelson who you always had in mind for the role?
Silverstein: If you had to say this is Birkhoff's dad, we had to find somebody that kind of made sense. We had seen Birkhoff getting birthed from this rebellious guy from the end of The Breakfast Club. It sort of made sense.
Just curious -- did no one, not even Amanda, think to make a Nikita double?
Silverstein: Oh, sure. You've got to believe that we talked about that in the writers' room. We talked about that or making a Michael double. There was not enough time. I'm sure we're going to have people say the doubles idea is cheesy in and of itself, but it really would have been if we had pushed a Nikita double thing. But we definitely came up with scenarios for it. We were going to kill Nikita, and everybody would go, "No!" But it's a double. That kind of thing.
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Can you explain the decision behind the episode titles, why they were paired? ("Wanted" and "Dead or Alive," "Set-Up" and "Pay-Off," "Bubble" and "Canceled")
Silverstein: It started with the idea that at some point there was an air pattern discussed in which the season would be broken up into three two-parters. That was what the initial idea was, so in breaking the stories we approached it that way. That's why the titles match each other in twos. We thought it would be three separate nights. But on DVD and Netflix, each episode had to live independently as well.
And then "Bubble" was a working title that we had because we had always talked about this scenario in which Nikita was put in a bubble in which she believes she had won. If Mr. Jones (David S. Lee) had his way, she would have lived out her entire life in that bubble and never known that the group was still operating. If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. Of course, the bubble burst. And then for "Canceled," there was some email chain where we were batting back and forth [on] episode titles. I kept saying, "It's going to be 'Canceled,' because it fit the Nikita lore -- where agents get 'canceled.'" And then we realized how well it paired with "Bubble" -- kind of a grim in-joke. It's been a bubble show every season. We said, "It's got to be called that."
What were some of the things on the list of "to do" that you finally got to this last season? What didn't you get to?
Silverstein: We wanted to bring back Ramon (Simon Kassianides), we wanted to bring back Cyrus (Isaiah Mustafa), we wanted to bring back Percy (Xander Berkeley). There are a bunch of people who were on the wishlist. We also had this wish to show how in-depth it was, the process by which they made these doubles. We didn't have enough time to really get into it as much as we really wanted to or as much as we had already worked out behind the scenes. There are some loose trheads out there that were abandoned -- but I'm sure for some fans they won't mind they were abandoned -- like Michael's son and blondie Cassandra (Helena Mattsson). But honestly, I would have liked to have brought that back and pay that off or at least addressed it. Alex's mom -- these are things that we never forgot, but there's limited time. And they didn't work out as well as we wanted them to. I don't think there was ever anything we did on the show where we said, "OK, pretend that never happened." We always remembered that it happened.
Was having the plane this season something you've always wanted to do?
Silverstein: No, that was something that occurred. That was a lot of fun. But I will tell you -- we were really, really trying to destroy the plane because we knew that beginning with Nikita's lair and culminating with Division, even Falling Waters, the beach house -- every single lair they've had has been destroyed. So we really wanted to crash the plane and have them parachute off of it, so we could have the perfect score of blowing up headquarters.
Is there any story behind finally revealing Michael's last name?
Silverstein: In Episode 5, they're having that romantic moment, and Nikita says something about, "Now you can go back to being Michael Bishop." We knew he was Michael Bishop for a long time, but it's just that we noticed that fans were demanding it and wanting to know what his last name was. For us, it was never a big deal, but it was a game we started to play, like how could we avoid it. I think we had some moment where he visited his family's grave and he was standing in such a way what it blocked his last name. That was just a game we were playing to frustrate the people who really wanted to know his last name because we thought it was funny.
Did you clue in Shane early on to the last name?
Silverstein: I think we did. We were like, "Here it is." He was like, "Cool, what does that mean?" "Nothing, it's just a last name." But for us, it's a reference to Sneakers, in which Robert Redford's name is Martin Bishop, and we all love that movie. So it's a Sneakers shout-out.
Go back to the start ... do you remember your hopes for the show and if any of those things changed?
Silverstein: It became more sci-fi than I had expected it to be. But the only real big change in my hopes and plans had to do with the Nikita-Alex relationship. My original plan was to build them into unlikely rivals, that Alex was going to take a darker turn. Not that she would become an enemy, but that they would find themselves on opposite sides and she would have taken over Zetrov. Of course, you saw that story line piece by piece get sealed off and tied off, resolved. That one, I'd say, is the biggest shift from my grand plan to where we ended up.
Can you think back to some favorite scenes over the years?
Silverstein: The moments that I remember the most were the moments that surprised me, like Birkhoff getting his hand hammered by Amanda. We knew the scene and we knew her line, but we just didn't anticipate it being so brutal. I was really surprised by that. Also, I really loved in the seventh episode of the second season where Nikita ascends the building to get at the Wall Street guy who she thought killed Ryan. The first of the three times that Ryan dies on the show. The solution that had come up from our producer narc in Toronto ... to plug some device into the window washer grooves was such a brilliant idea because we had just written your standard old harpoon and grapple hook type of thing. This was so much better. And then I had always loved the moment from the 11th episode in the first season, "All the Way," where Nikita was trapped in Division, hanging by chains. And Alex weakens the ceiling and Nikita rips the chains out and uses the chains as weapons. I don't think I found past that point a more effective visual statement of what the show was all about -- that Nikita was going to take the chains that had locked her in and would turn them back on the people that had chained her. It's real simple symbolism, but it didn't hit you over the head with it.
What's next for you?
Silverstein: Next is something that although it's set in the world of spies, it's completely different. Turn for AMC is based on a true story never told until now about America's first spy network under the direct supervision of George Washington. It's an extremely exciting and exotic time that we all think we know, but we actually really don't.
How difficult is it to write for this time period?
Silverstein: It's definitely challenging because you're dealing with people who actually existed and trying to find their voice in how they spoke. We of course don't have any records of that. We have records of how they wrote letters to each other, which was very formal and flowery, but I don't think gave you an insight into how they really spoke to each other. So that was a fun challenge to figure out and take a guess at. And stepping back into a completely different world, which almost feels like an alternate reality, like a Game of Thrones-thing but it's all true.
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A development group has filled its new state-of-the-art office building in Summit, three months after completing its transformation from a vacated medical property.The group, a team of Mark Yeager and Normandy Real Estate Partners, announced this week that the 65,000-square-foot Summit Executive Center had reached full occupancy with the completion of two recent leases. The newest tenants include Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Amlin PLC, a specialist insurance group that is expanding from the United Kingdom.
The leases at the property culminated a project that began in April 2011, when the team acquired the building from another developer, which had already stripped it down to its concrete structure. Yeager said the previous occupants, a medical group, left the aging building to expand at a nearby location.
When taking over the project, the group saw the potential to attract tenants to "an urban environment in a suburban setting," Yeager said, pointing to Summit's rail station, the nearby downtown and the growing market for transit-centric office space.
"We knew it was a little bit of a leap of faith," he said. "There was no question that this kind of asset had never been offered before in a location like Summit, so we had no question that we'd find demand. I think the only question was would we find enough demand in the price point that we were looking to obtain, which was significant."
He added that "the sizing and the scale of it was an important part of the consideration," noting that a 100,000-square-foot building "probably would have been too much for the market. But I think 65,000 square feet was enough where you could get kind of critical mass."


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Last month I bought a copy of the first season of The Bill Cosby Show for six dollars in a remaindered DVD store on Sixth Avenue. That probably goes some way towards explaining why it's taken Shout Factory, which distributes The Bill Cosby Show, four years to get around to releasing the second and final season, and only as a direct-mail exclusive.
If you're confused about how anything Cosbyfied could lapse into obscurity or unprofitability, you should note that I'm talking about The Bill Cosby Show (1969-1971), not The Cosby Show (1984-1992). The latter is the mega-popular, audience-friendly family sitcom that kept NBC in business during the eighties. The former is the black sheep of the Cosby canon, a forgotten but far superior series in which the comedian took chances, engaged with the realities of the immediate post-Civil Rights era, and apparently annoyed the network (also NBC) enough to trigger a premature cancellation. The first name makes all the difference. Original recipe Cos is the one you want.
Backed by triple Emmy wins for his work on I Spy, Cosby executive-produced The Bill Cosby Show himself, independently. It doesn't look or feel like any other situation comedy from the time. There's no laugh track, no ensemble of colorful sidekicks mugging for attention. A lot of the action in The Bill Cosby Show takes place outdoors (and off the backlot). Many of the directors (Harvey Hart, Ralph Senensky, Seymour Robbie) had more experience working with dramatic material than with comedy, and the writers took care to depict Cosby's character as a rounded, multi-faceted individual, an organic part of a well-defined environment. It would be an overstatement to call The Bill Cosby Show a "dramedy." But it takes place in the real world, not in sitcomland.
The other aspect of The Bill Cosby Show that distinguishes it from most television comedies is that it has no set formula. It goes in all different directions. Each episode is very different from the others in its plot, setting, and even the style of humor. Cosby plays Chet Kincaid, who in press materials about the show is usually identified as a high school gym coach. That's accurate, but incomplete, because this is not a workplace comedy. Chet is, first and foremost, a black man in Los Angeles.
In the first episode, "The Fatal Phone Call," Chet stumbles into a series of increasingly serious misadventures while out for a morning jog. That activity is the only clue to his profession, which the series explores at its leisure. Later episodes build out the character of Chet, gradually introducing members of a large family (siblings, sister-in-law, niece & nephews, parents), various girlfriends, colleagues from work. Chet's life at school dominates more episodes than any other subject, but many segments deal exclusively with his family relations, his sex life, or simply the scrapes that an average citizen gets into while going about his daily life.
My favorite episodes of The Bill Cosby Show fall into that last category, because they are the most unpredictable. Unencumbered by all the usual sitcom fallbacks, Cosby and his head writer, Ed. Weinberger, could craft scenarios out of any whim that struck them. "Rules Is Rules," one of the funniest farces I've ever seen on television, pits Chet against an implacable public school bureaucracy in his quest to purchase a single valve that he needs to re-inflate his supply of basketballs. "A Word From Our Sponsor" sees Chet accept a role as a cereal pitchman – because, he makes clear, he needs the money. Rather than follow standard sitcom rules, the writer, Marvin Kaplan, offers a series of formless set pieces, climaxing with a howler of a TV commercial shoot in which the hapless Chet is soundly defeated by a precocious child actor and a misbehaving box of Corn Wispies. The episode falters only because Cosby seems to have improvised at length, and his timing was altered when these sequences were trimmed to fit the half-hour frame. It's hard to imagine an episode of That Girl having that problem.
A comparison to Seinfeld may be too easy, but the best of The Bill Cosby Shows are, indeed, about nothing. This appealing minimalism reached its apex with Henry Fonda's guest appearance in "The Elevator Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." Instead of giving the movie legend a meaty star turn, Stan Daniels's teleplay casts him as a meek English teacher who gets trapped in an elevator with Chet. The pair pass the time with word games and breath-holding contests. Fonda does get to deliver a touching monologue near the end, but for most of the show he seems liberated by the chance to riff with Cosby in a series of long-take two-shots.
Bill Cosby, Ray Charles, Henry Fonda, and an elevator
Cosby seems to have insisted on that setup as much as possible. In "Home Remedy" there's an amazing four-and-a-half-minute improvisation between Cosby and Lee Weaver (a semi-regular, as Chet's married brother), in which they reminisce about faking illnesses to score sick days when they were children. Long takes suit Cosby because he really gets going when he has strong, adult performers off of whom he can play. (Cosby is less entertaining when he's playing with children, or doing solo schtick. The comedian foregrounded those elements in his second eponymous series, which was likable but not nearly as funny as the first one.)
Even more than Fonda, small-part actors who were often stuck playing exaggerated comic types in other shows came alive in the company of Cosby. Kathleen Freeman must have drawn on her own experience as an acting coach in "A Word From Her Sponsor," in which she plays a drama teacher who puts a hopeless Chet through a series of detailed and authentic-sounding acting exercises. In "Let X Equal a Lousy Weekend," Chet subs as an algebra teacher and gets stuck on a tough word problem involving amounts of candy. Enter Bill Zuckert to deliver a hilarious aria as a candy shop owner who decides that Chet is crazy when he requests a hike in prices so they'll match his math problem exactly.
And Fran Ryan, never one of my favorite character players, is a revelation as the stern school administrator in "Rules Is Rules." She's playing her usual battle axe type, but it occurred to someone that Ryan's Mrs. Beal should respond to the charm that Cosby aims at her. With a hint of a smile, Ryan betrays a secret pleasure as Chet outwits the inane red tape that Mrs. Beal is charged with enforcing. A cliched situation turns complex, warm, and real through the byplay between the two performers.
My favorite of Cosby's sparring partners is Joyce Bulifant, the perky blonde who later appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Murray's wife. Bulifant plays a hip guidance counselor, Marsha Paterson, who has a lively, sexy chemistry with Chet. But she disappears after a few episodes. That a romance between Chet and Mrs. Paterson (carefully identified as a married woman in the scripts) remained off-limits brings us around to the issue of race, which lies palpably under the surface of The Bill Cosby Show.
Joyce Bulifant as Mrs. Paterson
Supposedly Cosby and Robert Culp, his co-star in I Spy, agreed that the camaraderie between their characters on that series "was the statement." Their interracial friendship was more powerful because race was never mentioned. Cosby took the same approach when he got his own series. Racial discrimination and identity politics form an important structuring absence in The Bill Cosby Show.
In "The Fatal Phone Call," Chet gets picked up by the cops because he resembles a vague description of a burglar they're looking for. He is a victim of racial profiling. But Cosby hedges his bets by casting African Americans as two of the police officers, and then by playing the actual criminal himself in the closing gag of the show. Chet's uncanny resemblance to the thief means that the cops can't be faulted for overt bigotry.
Is that a cop-out? I'm not sure. Casting a squat, bald black man who looked nothing like Cosby would have made a powerful statement, but that's not the kind of show Cosby wanted to do. He's more concerned with a minute study of how Chet deals with the problem: he gets exasperated, then alarmed, but he contains his emotions and plays it cool. Most TV shows in the sixties either ignored racism or railed against it, and I'll bet that Cosby's down-to-earth attack on the subject held more meaning for viewers who actually faced systemic racism in their daily lives.
In "The Gumball Incident," an innocent Chet gets arrested for breaking a merchant's gumball machine. Chet has the option of paying off the complainant, but he submits to the arrest because of his faith that the system will vindicate him. Cosby does a funny routine where he has trouble holding his booking sign the right way as the police (who are, again, multiracial) take his mug shot. The sequence conveys no explicit political message, but it's freighted with a meaning that would not be there if, say, Ted Bessell posed for a booking photograph on That Girl.
(In case you hadn't noticed: That Girl is this week's banal-sitcom whipping-post.)
At the end of "The Gumball Incident" Chet reconciles with the surly storekeeper. In the interim, he has received scrupulously fair treatment by the police and the courts. The plot of the episode evokes the specter of the Watts riots – a black man is accused of vandalism by a white business owner – but Cosby chooses to paint the situation in the most optimistic terms imaginable. It's possible to take this as naïve, and I wonder how African American audiences reacted to it back in 1969. The Bill Cosby Show's approach to matters of race is non-confrontational in the extreme. Whenever Cosby addresses the subject, he's pointed but indirect. A photo of Dr. King or a Ray Charles album on prominent display in Chet's apartment contextualize him within African American politics and culture. But no one ever mentions the color of anyone's skin.
The most potent of these unreferenced images of blackness involve Chet's sexuality. To put it in modern terms, Chet is a player. He's an unapologetic bachelor who lays a good line on a different beautiful black woman in nearly every episode. Chet has game, and a sex appeal that will surprise anyone who only knows Cosby as Cliff Huxtable. Chet never gets serious about any of his lady friends, and then when he does – in "The Blind Date," which features a lovely, relaxed Cicely Tyson as a potential soulmate who breaks his heart – it carries a great deal of meaning. The Bill Cosby Show debuted just before the blaxploitation era of aggressive African American pimps and studs, at a moment when Sidney Poitier faced criticism for muting his own sexuality in films like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in order to court a wider (or whiter) audience. In his typically subtle way, Cosby crossed one of the last barriers for black leading men.
That's why I'm curious about Joyce Bulifant's departure, and why The Bill Cosby Show poured cold water on her character's flirtation with Chet. Did Cosby oppose interracial dating? Did he worry about provoking a controversy that would overshadow his quietly progressive take on race relations? Did Cosby sacrifice Bulifant's contributions in order to preserve the opportunity to place a variety of attractive black women in front of the camera? Or was NBC simply too squeamish to put an interracial relationship on the air in 1969?
Since I started this blog, I have acquired a reputation as a Scroogy McScrooge who doesn't like to laugh. Except maybe when I'm kicking puppies or insulting dead actors. Yes, that's right: a sitcom-hater. My detractors will be delighted to learn that I must be getting soft in my incipient middle age, because I have started watching Love American Style and I think it's very funny. Sometimes.
In purely formal terms, Love American Style, which also debuted in the fall of 1969, was as novel as The Bill Cosby Show. An hour-long anthology, Love assembled three or four unrelated comic stories each week. Interspersing with these were a half-dozen or so blackout gags, all less than sixty seconds in duration and featuring a regular cast of bit players. The looseness of the format made the show feel more like a variety show than a sitcom, even though the material was typically sitcomic, right down to the laugh track. The success of NBC's free-form Laugh-In the previous year probably inspired ABC to dilute Love's structure and content to appeal to a wider audience.
A popular, five-season hit in its day, Love American Style has since acquired a reputation as a uniquely cringeworthy relic. The show is redolent with nehru jackets and paisley party shirts, but the reason it's dated now is because it didn't tell much truth. If the show had anything real to say about love or sex or relationships, its disinterment for DVD in 2007 wouldn't have inspired a long say wha? in the New York Times, of all places. Love took the easy route – it reduced its subject to a card-file of cliches, hoary vaudeville routines, and adolescent male fantasies.
The premiere episode, which was probably shot and broadcast first because it broached a "controversial" topic, concludes with a sketch entitled "Love and the Pill." The segment unfurls a dialogue between the parents of a teenaged girl and her mod young boyfriend. Revealingly, the character who's absent while the other parties discuss her reproductive rights is the teenager who may or may not be using the pill. The big joke – wait for it – is whether or not the parents (Robert Cummings and iconic TV mom Jane Wyatt) will opt to mash up a contraceptive and spike their daughter's food with it.
Love American Style is always like that. Its default perspective is vaguely establishment and relentlessly male. It takes a traditionally "female" genre (romance) and twists it into leering sex farce. The funniest episodes are those in which a dweeby or creepy young man comes up with some clever trick for wearing down the resistance of a beautiful woman. (If that sounds familiar, it may be because Judd Apatow's modern, acclaimed "adult" comedies and their imitators founder on the same shoals of arrested development.) Segments that revolve around middle-aged or elderly couples, or African Americans, usually play like musty old vaudeville routines. Likely that's because the youngish, white, male executive producers, Jim Parker and Arnold Margolin, couldn't be easily budged from a point of view that came naturally to them.
Were a viewer to marathon-watch Love American Style today, the casual sexism would grow toxic. But I did say that I liked this show, didn't I? Yes, that's the shame: within its limits, here and there, Love American Style delivers laughs.
Exploring his options: That Girl's Ted Bessell must choose between stewardesses Diane McBain and Anjanette Comer in "Love and the Roommate."
One reason for that is the anthology structure. If you got tired of dropping in on Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell year after year, you could click over to Love American Style, safe in the knowledge that this week's quibbling couple would make their exeunt in twenty minutes or less. This knowledge must have appealed to the writers even more than to the viewer, because they could end a script without having to return their characters to the same stasis they were in last week and would still be in next week. Occasionally, a Love American Style segment takes advantage of that freedom and goes in for a bawdy laugh or out on a strange tangent.
"Love and the Living Doll," in which Arte Johnson romances a blow-up doll in order to make a neighbor girl jealous, teeters intriguingly on the boundary between icky and cute. "Love and the Watchdog" fetches some clever telephone humor out of a dognapping scenario (the owner wants to hear the dog bark before she'll pay a ransom). "Love and the Dating Computer" chronicles a botched blind date between two guys whose names are Francis and Marion, who find that the computer matched them perfectly in every other regard. What sounds like an exercise in homophobia turns witty and endearing once it becomes clear that the writers, Michael Elias and Frank Shaw, aren't going to coat the budding bromance with a layer of gay panic. And the casting is inspired: Broderick Crawford has great fun playing against type as a sensitive, lonely bachelor.
Then there's the segment in which newlywed Stefanie Powers tells husband Gary Lockwood that his mouth is too small, and he tries to prove her wrong by fellating a doorknob. It's called, yes, "Love and the Doorknob." I really don't know what to say about this absurdist gem, except that suddenly I want to know more about the private lives of Doris and Frank Hursley, the soap opera royalty (they created General Hospital) who wrote it.
Only two things are worth mentioning about the tiny throwaway sketches that Love American Style used as a connective tissue between the main segments. The first is that they made a star of sorts out of the rubber-faced Stuart Margolin (brother of Arnold Margolin, and later to play Angel on The Rockford Files), who was the only actor in the seven-member ensemble with any talent. The second is that the "Love American Style Players," as they were billed in the closing credits, were interracial (two black, five white). That makes these otherwise innocuous vignettes as much a snapshot of network television's take on race at the end of the sixties as The Bill Cosby Show. It's no surprise that Love American Style's ideas on this subject are far more squirm-inducing and out of date than Cosby's. Partly that's an accident of casting: Buzz Cooper, the African American romantic lead of the group, deployed an array of slack-jawed, sho' nuff expressions that Willie Best would have envied. (Cooper was replaced for the second season.)
But the more troubling aspect of the short sketches is that while the cast is interracial, the couples are always of the same race. The vignettes pair off the seven performers in every possible heterosexual combination, except for mixed race couples. After the first few episodes, Love American Style's avoidance of that possibility becomes a pregnant case of passive racism. I never understood why it was such a big deal when, in March of 1969, William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols enjoyed an interracial kiss in an episode of Star Trek. Now I'm starting to get the picture.
Out of his league: Tracy Reed and Buzz Cooper of the "Love American Style Players."
Correction (1/22/14): The original version of this piece misidentified the writer Frank Shaw (as Frank Davis).


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ORLANDO – The Saga of Tiger and Elin gets weirder. Years after the "incident", they are slowly getting back together.
Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren's marriage has had many twists and turns. But even their divorce attorneys were shocked to learn that they were recently spotted kissing while out in their Orlando neighborhood.
There are rumors that Elin has agreed to move back in with her cheating husband. And the reconciled spouses are not being bashful about showing their love for one another.
An eyewitness, Janet Thompon, told reporters, "They were hugging and they were kissing right out in the open. Elin is certainly a lot more relaxed these days and so is he."
Another inside source added "People in the neighborhood are getting used to seeing them together again. Perhaps they'll make it after all."
A little Tiger-Elin history.
Elin and Tiger met in 2001 at the British Open at Royal Lytham in England. Elin was working as an au pair to Jesper Parnevik, a Swedish golfer. On November 25, 2003, Tiger (27) proposed to Elin (23) in the South African Shamwari Game Reserve while they were on a romantic walk at sunset. They were there for a safari vacation and slept under the stars after the Presidents Cup.
On October 5, 2004 they were married. The ceremony itself was simple although the rest of the wedding preparations were elaborate and expensive. 500 red roses were imported for the wedding.
Their sunset wedding was held under a white-netted pagoda decorated with red roses on the 19th hole of the Sandy Lane Golf Resort in Barbados. Reportedly, Rev. Ricky Kirton was the officiant at their wedding. The exclusive resort is located on the west coast of the Caribbean locale. The wedding reportedly cost between $1.5 million — $2 million.
February1 19, 2010. Woods makes first appearance since the scandal broke, apologizing for "selfish and irresponsible" behavior in a statement televised around the world.
On August 23, 2010 Tiger and Elin are officially divorced.
They have two children: Sam Alexis Woods: Born 2007 and Charlie Axel Woods: Born 2009.
Maybe he realized he's not going to do much better than the beautiful Elin:


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The Situationist Staff is happy to recommend a terrific new book, "Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)." The book's authors, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson are both social psychologists — indeed, Elliot Aronson is widely regarded as one of the most influential social psychologist of the Twentieth Century. We have excerpted a small portion of the book's introductory chapter below.
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It's fascinating, and sometimes funny, to read doomsday predictions, but it's even more fascinating to watch what happens to the reasoning of true believers when the prediction flops and the world keeps muddling along. Notice that hardly anyone ever says, "I blew it! I can't believe how stupid I was to believe that nonsense"? On the contrary, most of the time they become even more deeply convinced of their powers of prediction. The people who believe that the Bible's book of Revelation or the writings of the sixteenth-century self-proclaimed prophet Nostradamus have predicted every disaster from the bubonic plague to 9/11 cling to their convictions, unfazed by the small problem that their vague and murky predictions were intelligible only after the event occurred.
Half a century ago, a young social psychologist named Leon Festinger and two associates infiltrated a group of people who believed the world would end on December 21. They wanted to know what would happen to the group when (they hoped!) the prophecy failed. The group's leader, whom the researchers called Marian Keech, promised that the faithful would be picked up by a flying saucer and elevated to safety at midnight on December 20. Many of her followers quit their jobs, gave away their homes, and dispersed their savings, waiting for the end. Who needs money in outer space? Others waited in fear or resignation in their homes. (Mrs. Keech's own husband, a nonbeliever, went to bed early and slept soundly through the night as his wife and her followers prayed in the living room.) Festinger made his own prediction: The believers who had not made a strong commitment to the prophecy—who awaited the end of the world by themselves at home, hoping they weren't going to die at midnight—would quietly lose their faith in Mrs. Keech. But those who had given away their possessions and were waiting with the others for the spaceship would increase their belief in her mystical abilities. In fact, they would now do everything they could to get others to join them.
At midnight, with no sign of a spaceship in the yard, the group felt a little nervous. By 2 a.m., they were getting seriously worried. At 4:45 a.m., Mrs. Keech had a new vision: The world had been spared, she said, because of the impressive faith of her little band. "And mighty is the word of God," she told her followers, "and by his word have ye been saved—for from the mouth of death have ye been delivered and at no time has there been such a force loosed upon the Earth. Not since the beginning of time upon this Earth has there been such a force of Good and light as now floods this room."
The group's mood shifted from despair to exhilaration. Many of the group's members, who had not felt the need to proselytize before December 21, began calling the press to report the miracle, and soon they were out on the streets, buttonholing passersby, trying to convert them. Mrs. Keech's prediction had failed, but not Leon Festinger's.
The engine that drives self-justification, the energy that produces the need to justify our actions and decisions — especially the wrong ones — is an unpleasant feeling that Festinger called "cognitive dissonance." Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs whenever a person holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent, such as "Smoking is a dumb thing to do because it could kill me" and "I smoke two packs a day." Dissonance produces mental discomfort, ranging from minor pangs to deep anguish; people don't rest easy until they find a way to reduce it. In this example, the most direct way for a smoker to reduce dissonance is by quitting. But if she has tried to quit and failed, now she must reduce dissonance by convincing herself that smoking isn't really so harmful, or that smoking is worth the risk because it helps her relax or prevents her from gaining weight (and after all, obesity is a health risk, too), and so on. Most smokers manage to reduce dissonance in many such ingenious, if self-deluding, ways.
Dissonance is disquieting because to hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity and, as Albert Camus observed, we humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. At the heart of it, Festinger's theory is about how people strive to make sense out of contradictory ideas and lead lives that are, at least in their own minds, consistent and meaningful. The theory inspired more than 3,000 experiments that, taken together, have transformed psychologists' understanding of how the human mind works. . . .
In 1956, one of us (Elliot) arrived at Stanford University as a graduate student in psychology. Festinger had arrived that same year as a young professor, and they immediately began working together, designing experiments to test and expand dissonance theory. Their thinking challenged many notions that were gospel in psychology and among the general public, such as the behaviorist's view that people do things primarily for the rewards they bring, the economist's view that human beings generally make rational decisions, and the psychoanalyst's view that acting aggressively gets rid of aggressive impulses.
Consider how dissonance theory challenged behaviorism. At the time, most scientific psychologists were convinced that people's actions are governed by reward and punishment. . . .
. . . [N]o one would stay in a boring job without pay, and if you give your toddler a cookie to stop him from having a tantrum, you have taught him to have another tantrum when he wants a cookie. But, for better or worse, the human mind is more complex than the brain of a rat or a puppy. A dog may appear contrite for having been caught peeing on the carpet, but she will not try to think up justifications for her misbehavior. Humans think; and because we think, dissonance theory demonstrated that our behavior transcends the effects of rewards and punishments and often contradicts them.
For example, Elliot predicted that if people go through a great deal of pain, discomfort, effort, or embarrassment to get something, they will be happier with that "something" than if it came to them easily. For behaviorists, this was a preposterous prediction. Why would people like anything associated with pain? But for Elliot, the answer was obvious: self-justification. The cognition that I am a sensible, competent person is dissonant with the cognition that I went through a painful procedure to achieve something — say, joining a group that turned out to be boring and worthless. Therefore, I would distort my perceptions of the group in a positive direction, trying to find good things about them and ignoring the downside.
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Social psychologist William B. Swann wrote a review of "Mistakes Were Made" for American Scientist Online, in which he provided the following desription of the range of Aronson & Tavris's analysis:
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Brandishing the banner of dissonance theory, Tavris and Aronson charge through a breathtakingly diverse collection of substantive topics. The result is both engaging and informative. Their key argument is that dissonance theory can explain many laboratory findings and elements of many naturally occurring phenomena. For example, the authors maintain that when ordinary people blithely agreed to administer dangerously strong electric shocks to hapless learners in Stanley Milgram's classic experiments, the subjects' penchant for self-justification ("the experimenter told me to continue") was a key contributor to their complicity. Similarly, in instances in which prosecutors have refused to back down when DNA evidence has revealed that a defendant was wrongfully sentenced for a crime, Tavris and Aronson attribute theprosecutors' refusal to admit error to pernicious self-justification processes. The authors also maintain that most champions of the repressed-memory movement, when confronted with information suggesting that the "memories" of alleged victims are false, simply dismiss the evidence as being a form of backlash against child victims and incest survivors.
As the book's title suggests, one of the topics touched on is contemporary politics. Tavris and Aronson mention in the endnotes that many U.S. presidents have used the phrase "mistakes were made," including Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. Although Alberto Gonzales's use of the phrase a few months ago ("I acknowledge that mistakes were made here") occurred too recently to make it into the book, the authors do discuss some of the self-justifications and self-deceptions of the current administration. For example, they characterize George W. Bush as "the poster boy for 'tenacious clinging to a discredited belief.'"
Tavris and Aronson do an artful job of illustrating the contribution that social-psychological research on self-justification can make to understanding numerous social phenomena. Moreover, they do so in a manner that is often witty and always engaging. This book will undoubtedly bring important scientific findings to life for readers from all walks of life.
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For an NPR Talk of the Nation story interview regarding "Mistakes Were Made," click here. To learn more about or to purchase the book, click here.


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It was a beautiful night at Nationals Park, with a game time temperature of 73 degrees and a crowd of 17,153 on hand to watch a classic pitchers' duel between the Nationals' John Lannan and the Philadelphia Phillies' Pedro Martinez.
With the Nationals up 1-0 in the 4th inning and Lannan cruising through the World Champions' batting order, it seemed the only thing that could make the night better would be a victory for Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy tried a little too hard.
As George Washington sprinted out to an early presidents race lead, Teddy recruited his onetime nemesis That
Cat to join the race.
The now-familiar panther slammed
Abe Lincoln into the outfield wall, then
chased down George Washington and knocked him to the ground, before finally putting the block on Thomas Jefferson, leaving Teddy Roosevelt with an uncontested path to the finish line.
A biased Nationals Park crowd cheered Teddy's apparent victory, but Screech quickly stepped in to issue the disqualification for "Illegal Use of a Feline."
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Abe quickly got up off the ground to cross the tape and steal Teddy's thunder, leading us to ask whether judge Screech and racing president Abe are in cahoots. After all, Abe has been known to cheat from time to time, but when was the last time he was disqualified?
And the in-game play-by-play:
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